While it's clear that oil corps are the huge producers of CO2, they aren't anything without consumers. We have agency to refuse. Bonus points is that by pledging to not fly during the pandemic, we can prevent never-ending variants of COVID from spreading globally.

I still get to where I need to be without any of the stress related to airline travel, while doing my part intrinsically in reducing my carbon footprint.

My husband and I stopped mostly flying in 1995. We traveled a lot for our work and used Greyhound and Amtrak, with an occasional flight, when it was the only option. Now we tell people we don't fly except in a family emergency. We are strong advocates of Amtrak and encourage people to take the time, relax, read, meet new people, and give extra time for delays.

I am 51 years old and I am pledging to not fly the rest of my life. I don’t have to fly for work. I live in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula so I don’t have to fly anywhere for beautiful forests and beaches. When I do travel I drive using a hybrid vehicle.

Jon read about Flight Free in this article: https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/essays/should-i-stop-flying/

I stopped flying in 2012, the day after we interviewed Klaus Lackner, a pioneer in carbon capture. This is just a minute and a half to explain why: https://youtu.be/_4KnK9hdnxw

Richard Reiss is Executive Director of The City Atlas and developed a cooperative game that shows what it takes to decarbonize NYC. It's in use at universities including Carnegie Mellon, CMU Africa, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Yale, Brown, and University College Dublin, and now also in 12 public high schools in NYC. They are working to replicate this method for every city, to help secondary schools meet the climate literacy goals of the UNFCCC Article 6 and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement.

I appreciate the work of Flight Free USA to encourage us to stand together and refrain from flying as a conscientious act to reduce climate change. It really only took seeing the pledges of others to make me realize that I too no longer wish to take an occasional flight as a "normal" mode of travel. Thank you!

Our living planet - as we know it - is dying. Trying everything I know to do my part. Not flying is low-hanging fruit.
Last flight - 2018.

The climate crisis demands immediate action from every person, family, company, and government on the planet, but most especially from those who live in wealthier countries. Recreational flying is one of the worst actions people take against the environment, due to all the emissions created by airplanes. That is why my husband and I pledge to go flight-free for the remainder of our lives. We will only travel via more sustainable methods, and we will find many amazing wonders right in our local area!

I cannot, in good conscience, continue to fly while knowing that climate change is affecting our planet and my lifestyle is having a detrimental impact on it.